Ethics Expertise by Lisa Rasmussen
Section I examines historical philosophical understandings of expertise in order to situate the current institution of bioethics. Section I focuses on philosophical analyses of the concept of expertise, asking, among other things, how it should be understood, how it can be acquired, and what such expertise warrants. Finally, section I addresses topics in bioethics and how ethics expertise should or should not be brought to bear in these areas, including expertise in the court room, in the hospital room, in the media, and in making policy. 2. A GUIDED HISTORICAL TOUR As Scott LaBarge points out, Plato's dialogues can be viewed as an extended treatment of the concept of moral expertise, so it is fitting to begin the volume with an examination of Socrates and Moral Expertise. Given Socrates' protestations (the Oracle at Delphi notwithstanding) that he knows nothing, LaBarge observes that it would be interesting to determine both what a Socratic theory of moral expertise might be and whether Socrates qualified as such an expert. Plato's model of moral expertise is what LaBarge calls demonstrable expertise, which is concerned mainly with the ability to attain a goal and to explain how one did it. The problem with this account is that when one tries to solve the various problems in the model - for example, allowing that moral expertise is not an all-or-nothing skill - then one is immediately faced with the credentials problem. As LaBarge puts it, . . .-
Thomas Percivals Medical Ethics and the Invention of Medical Professionalism
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The Vulnerability of the Human World
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Ethics and Critical Care Medicine
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Medical Research Ethics: Challenges in the 21st Century
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New Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences
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Life Conduct in Modern Times
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Chasing Tourette’s: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self
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Chasing Tourettes: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self
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At the Foundations of Bioethics and Biopolitics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
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Emerging Issues in Catholic Bioethics
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Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby: A Reprint with Commentaries
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Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation
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Human Capacities and Moral Status
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Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons
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Articulating Intersex: A Crisis at the Intersection of Scientific Facts and Social Ideals
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Mutating Concepts, Evolving Disciplines: Genetics, Medicine, and Society
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Bioethics Critically Reconsidered
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Philosophical Medical Ethics: Its Nature and Significance
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The Use of Human Beings in Research
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Informed Consent, Proxy Consent, and Catholic Bioethics
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Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care
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The Edge of Life
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From Physicians Professional Ethos towards Medical Ethics and Bioethics
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Classifying Madness
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Elisha Bartlett's Philosophy of Medicine
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Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos
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Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology
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Infertility
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A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease
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Moral Expertise
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The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics
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The Ethics of Reproductive Genetics
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Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics
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Ethos, Bioethics, and Sexual Ethics in Work and Reception of the Anatomist Niels Stensen (1638-1686)
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Personal Identity as a Principle of Biomedical Ethics
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Ibero-American Bioethics
From the reviews:
"The essays in this collection represent both a summary of the debate about expertise in medical ethics and also take the argument a little further... Ethics Expertise is a solid contribution to the literature in this area. It is an important topic and these papers help to advance the debate." (Christian Perring, Metapsychology Online Reviews, July, 2006)
Lisa M. Rasmussen earned her PhD in Philosophy (with a focus on bioethics) from Rice University, and is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Factuly Fellow in the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. One of Dr. Rasmussen's main research areas is research ethics, particularly research misconduct and federal regulatory approaches to ethical issues in research. She is presently working on a book manuscript on unregulated human subject research, and serves as Editor of the book series Philosophy and Medicine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789048169733 |
| ISBN 10 | 9048169739 |
| Title | Ethics Expertise |
| Author | Lisa Rasmussen |
| Series | Philosophy And Medicine |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Year published | 2010-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 279 |
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